drinking problem
individuals who drank more than two standard drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women were particularly at risk of alcohol-related cancers
So this is the first good anti-mad-cow (anti-cjd) drug I’ve seen.
#milestone! http://www.economist.com/node/18276254
30M Americans Drive Drunk on Average Annually
Wow…1 in 10… that’s a lot…
the addition of Avastin to two newer types of chemotherapy, called Folfox and Xelox, checked growth for just 1.4 months and offered no significant improvement in survival.
Roche’s `Brilliant Concept’ Avastin Fades Amid Doctor Disappointment - Bloomberg
Too bad we can’t do more testing to know which patients Avastin will work in, so outcomes like this don’t happen…At 50K per year+ it makes sense to do more pre-testing.
By increasing our arousal, though, caffeine makes us process incoming messages more thoroughly, potentially leading to increased persuasion.
On average, a pack of cigarettes in the U.S. costs a smoker $5.51, while the combined medical costs and productivity losses attributable to each pack are approximately $18.05, according to the researchers.
And the costs are in the hundreds if you consider the early death they cause….
All of which implies… cigarette taxes should be as high as they can possibly be without fueling a black market…
How to erase a memory | KurzweilAI
Pretty cool if someone can concoct a drug to eliminate a fearful memory. Super valuable. Here’s the step by step guide for a drug company to do just that.
Experiment finds caffeine drinkers more influenced by a persuasive message than a placebo group. …. By increasing our arousal, though, caffeine makes us process incoming messages more thoroughly, potentially leading to increased persuasion.
4.75 ounces of hemp seed oil was … sufficient to produce a positive result on a urinary drug test.
In the past four years, 75 smuggling tunnels have been discovered on the U.S.-Mexican border, most of them in California and Arizona, authorities said. In all, about 125 tunnels have been found since the early 1990s, when authorities began keeping count, with just one of them on the U.S.-Canadian border, Mack said.
Authorities discover 30 tons of marijuana, border tunnel - CNN.com
Didn’t know tunnels between Mexico and the US were that common. Wow.
contrary to stereotypes, the less fortunate are sober and the more privileged are hammered. (via Drinking Statistics by Income - Chart of Drinking Habits vs Income - Esquire
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Experimental 'party' drug ketamine produces benefits for people with bipolar depression - latimes.com
cool, interesting, good to know… cool mechanism too…
Water Fluoridation May Be Harmful to Your Health
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